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Murasaki ShikibuWe’re willing to bet your high school English classes featured lots of novels by male writers, from Twain to Dickens to Hemingway. But their craft may not even have existed if it hadn’t been for Murasaki Shikibu, a Japanese woman widely considered to be the world’s first novelist. Shikibu was a noblewoman living in Japan around the year 1000 AD. She wrote a two-part novel called The Tale of Genji, which tells a riches-to-rags story about the son of a Japanese emperor forced to l History Powerpoint, Murasaki Shikibu, Medieval Japan, Ap World History, Japanese Clothes, Classical Period, Hidden Figures, Asian Countries, Future Is Female

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Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese writer and lady-in-waiting who was the author of The Tale of Genji (c. 1010), generally considered the greatest work of Japanese literature and thought to be the world’s oldest full novel. Learn more about Murasaki Shikibu’s life.

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An extremely popular writer both in her lifetime and in the millenia since, Murasaki Shikibu is credited as writing the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji. A mysterious figure, Murasaki used her illicit knowledge of classical Chinese and Japanese literature not only redefine the genre she wrote in, but to create an artform that survives to this day. Genji Monogatari, Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale Of Genji, Tale Of Genji, Medieval Japan, Heian Era, Japanese Literature, Ancient Japan, Floating World

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An extremely popular writer both in her lifetime and in the millenia since, Murasaki Shikibu is credited as writing the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji. A mysterious figure, Murasaki used her illicit knowledge of classical Chinese and Japanese literature not only redefine the genre she wrote in, but to create an artform that survives to this day. Murasaki Like so many of the women we cover, it's unknown if Murasaki Shikibu is even this woman's real name. Probably born in 973 CE…

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